Publishers to set up manga portal

ANN is reporting this morning that 37 Japanese publishers are working together to set up a North American digital distribution portal for manga. What on earth does this mean? It’s not clear, but the players include Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan, the three biggest publishers in Japan, all three of whom publish manga exclusively with a single publisher in the U.S. (Del Rey for Kodansha, Viz for Shueisha and Shogakukan).